Ertsgaard v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2018
10 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on McEleney v. Donovan · Bryan v. Capital Trust & Savings Bank
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““So it was for him [plaintiff] to prove (1) that the services were rendered; (2) under circumstances from which a promise to pay for them should be implied; and (3) their value.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dreelan v. Karon
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.